How do you figure out women? On the 22nd of Oct I will have been married 28 years,for the life of me I cannot remember breaking 4 mirrors.As the late great Les Dawson would have said,"I remember it like it was yesterday, I wish it was tomorrow. Iwould cancel it".Someone once said marrage is an institution,but who wants to live in an institution.There are tons more of these sayings. All funny and all wrong.I would not change one minute of it.My best man was none other than Witchfinder,one of the founders of this forum.So all things considered the world would be a worse place without them (Mrs Thatcher not counted).If there is one.GOD BLESS THEM ALL.

Natalie Woods death 30 years ago was deemed as an accident, now the Captain of Robert Wagner's yacht says they all lied about what had happened. Police have opened up the case again, but say Wagner is not a suspect. After hearing what the captain says, he is the only suspect, he refused to use the searchlight on the yacht to search the water, after she had supposedly fallen overboard. He also refused them to inform the authorities about her going into the water. The captain also goes on to say Wagner and Natalie had been falling out before she went overboard. They were instructed by Wagner to what to say about the incident, i am curious to find out why the captain is saying this after 30 years. How long was it before he stopped working for Wagner, that is if he is no longer working for him. Strange to develop a conscience after all this time, i know she drowned, but their story sounded a bit fishy to me at the time.Now then, has any one any opinions about this, i am curious to see what other people think. Do you think Wagner will be serving time this time next year.

I suppose it will be ok to use this thread for what i have to say, it's about women.

I was reading in this mornings paper about American football, a league played by women only. While millions tuned into the superbowl to watch the Giants and the Patriots, the L A Temptations and the Philadelphia Passions was playing in Las Vegas. The L A Temptations won, what was so unusual was they were both ladies teams, but it was there attire that interested me. Knickers, bra, knee pads and helmets, with what looked like cotton wool shoulder pads, more skin showing than what you would see in a nudist colony. They made their male counterparts look like a bunch of wimps, couldn't see the Giants and Patriots taking to field dressed like that. Just like our own ladies football and rugby teams, the ladies play harder than the men. No rolling round on the ground when they have been fouled, holding their legs or whatever, they get back up and get stuck in. I have never been interested in watching American football, always thought it a game for wimps and sissies, but i think i would love to see the women play. They looked great in their team kits in the pictures in the newspaper.

New York Dodgers? Don’t let an old Brooklyn Dodgers’ fan hear you say that! But that in fact is how they got the name. Brooklynites, not New Yorkers, had to dodge street cars on their way to Ebbets Field, the home of their beloved Dodgers.

The New York Giants (National League) and the New York Yankees (American League) were the “official” New York teams. Brooklyn, a New York borough/county (five boroughs counties, one city) was annexed to The City long after establishing its own identity.

Male team names often reflect teams’ origins, The Los Angeles Lakers were originally the Minneapolis Lakers (Minnesota, the Land of a Thousand Lakes), the Utah Jazz were originally the New Orleans Jazz, the Dallas Mavericks, well, a maverick is a steer, the San Francisco 49ers, California Gold Rush, 1849, etc.

Now't wrong with being called Temptations or Passions, all the ladies looked very tempting to me, and a bet they play with a passion too. Now what's this, being called cougars, jaguars, lions, and tigers. I know men think they are animals, but it all sounds a bit catty to me.

The women that are called cougars are middle aged, (you know, getting on a bit). Now my missus is 77 years old, never been a cougar, always a little pussy cat. Tiger's are found in India and Sumatra, cougar's (puma's) are found in North America, i think you would find that the tiger would starve if it relied on eating cougar's.

More specifically, Jack, cougars are older women who like younger men.

In actuality though, I love cougars. There is a place a couple of hours south of me that rescues big cats. These are former "actor" animals, or illegal pets that were abandoned or seized. They had lions, tigers, ligers (at the time), lynx, bobcats- and cougars. The cougars would allow the owners to 'scritch' them like you would a house cat and they would purr like one too. That was very cool to listen to.

Florence Green as just died, two weeks short of her 111 birthday, she must be the last surviver of World War One, she served in the then newly established Womens Royal Air Force. She might not have been a hotshot pilot, but did deserve a bit more recognition, her passing was hidden in the middle pages of the newspaper. They say old soldiers don't die, they just fade away, well i believe in her case, she should not have faded away in the middle pages, but gone out with a bang on the front page. Other old male world war one veterans have always made the front page, and TV, but not poor Florence.

jackthelad wrote:A bit different to young women that like rich old men then. Are these female cougars rich.

I would suppose some are. Some probably just prefer to have eye candy on their arms, just as men do. Personally, I'm way more interested in being treated well than what you can offer me financially. Looks are not *completely* unimportant, but the better I'm treated, the more attractive a man becomes, regardless of his actual physical appearance.

jackthelad wrote:Florence Green as just died, two weeks short of her 111 birthday, she must be the last surviver of World War One, she served in the then newly established Womens Royal Air Force. She might not have been a hotshot pilot, but did deserve a bit more recognition, her passing was hidden in the middle pages of the newspaper. They say old soldiers don't die, they just fade away, well i believe in her case, she should not have faded away in the middle pages, but gone out with a bang on the front page. Other old male world war one veterans have always made the front page, and TV, but not poor Florence.

Politeness and courtesy. Ah, those were the days when a man would treat a lady with courtesy, and a lady wouldn't tell him to .... of, but politely decline his offer.

Politically Correct? Tell that epitaph in a night club, in the right atmosphere, and you might get a laugh. To the same audience on the High Street, nothing. In a political rally, horror. Treating human beings as human beings is politically correct. Treating men and women the same is politically correct. Political correctness has gone beserk. Can I tell a joke about a priest and be politically correct, and not get excommunicated? Can a Priest castigate his congregation for their sin and be politically correct and not have an egg thrown at him?

I'm too old for political correctness. Let's hope at the crematorium they remember to be politically correct and announce me as an ex agnostic, ex atheist, with leanings to a Confucian form of Taoist Buddhism and Tanakh teaching. That'll teach them Political correctness.